D. B. Sweeney Quotes
The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
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I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.
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I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.
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It's important to be right physically.
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The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
